Doing things with words in the first Christian century - Downing, Francis Gerald (Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000)
"Seven of these pieces have appeared in other publications ...; one will appear elsewhere.... Three chapters ... appear here for the first time"--P. 7
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-249) and index
Keywords: Jesus Christ -- Historicity; Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- Language, style; Bible. -- Reader-response criticism; Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.; Greek literature -- Relation to the New Testament; Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism); Rhetoric in the Bible